The Benefits of Starting a Club

So, you want to be a club president?

Who wouldn't? Holding an officer position, especially president, in a club shows leadership skills and dedication to that club. As a bonus, it can give you the power to bring ideas to the table to write about in your college essays; colleges can see that you had the initiative to bring real change to that club. But let's address the elephant in the room: becoming a club president can be hard. Some people think it's smart to try and game the system: they know they can't become president of the 100-member key club so they settle for being the president of the 4-member pizza club. Congratulations, you now hold a next-to-meaningless position in a next-to-meaningless club. Rather than trying to force yourself into a position in an existing club, why not force yourself into a position in a new club?

Creating a club

When you create a club, you're not only demonstrating the initiative that you were looking to demonstrate by becoming a club president, but you're also putting yourself in a position to do something that you genuinely enjoy. You won't be tied down to an existing topic; you will instead be able to freely show your leadership skills through a medium that you genuinely have a passion for. All this without the pressure of beating out dozens of other students to be the president of the biggest clubs in your school. All in all, creating a club gives you the benefits of being president of a meaningful club without the work of competing against your peers. That is not to say that the process is completely easy, as creating a club will require work that becoming president of an existing club will not require. However, it is undoubtedly an attractive alternative to the other methods.

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